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Overview of Galaxies and Their Types by Rei is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Galaxies are large assemblies of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity. Our own Milky Way galaxy contains about 200 billion stars, while the largest galaxies contain over 1 trillion stars. The document shows images of three galaxies - the Andromeda Galaxy, the Whirlpool Galaxy with its distinctive spiral structure, and the elliptical M87 galaxy. There are over 100 billion galaxies visible to telescopes.

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Rei

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EN